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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Fourteenth-century England"”.
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St Albans Abbey and the Law, c. 1327–1396
… in which law was invoked. Few actors from fourteenth-century England are sufficiently well documented for this to be possible: the Benedictine monastery of St Albans is a major exception. This dissertation therefore looks at the legal relationships of St Albans in four spheres: church, …
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The fourteenth-century sheriff : English local administration in the late Middle Ages
… thesis is to examine the sheriffs appointed in fourteenth-century England, the period identified by both Stubbs and Maitland as having witnessed the shrievalty's final emasculation. This thesis is not a continuation of Morris' work on the sheriff, and neither is it directly concerned with the …
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The Anti-Crusade Voice of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
… as other sociopolitical and cultural matters of England, his poetry can hardly be read but as an indirect critique of war in general and crusading in particular. Thus, to prove such a claim, this study consists of five main chapters. The first chapter discusses the dominance as well as nature of …
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Temporal structures in Piers Plowman
… pictured himself as existing both in time, in fourteenth-century England, and out of time, as part of a grand divine scheme. Piers Plowman is fitted into a Biblical and world-historical frame, the pattern of which is the figural interpretation of history. This implies that every occurrence, in …
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The Lancastrian Bias in Shakespeare's Richard the Second
The life of King Richard II of England offers an interesting challenge to anyone who desires to read and interpret history in a period of civil war which often clouds and at times even obscures fact by propaganda. | It is necessary for the winning faction in most civil wars to justify its actions; …
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The Fortunes of a King: Images of Edward the Confessor in 12th to 14th Century England
… devotional functions of his images in twelfth to fourteenth century England. The images are not concerned with the historical Anglo-Saxon King, but rather depict an idealized and simplified version of Edward. The discrepancies between Edward, the Anglo-Saxon monarch, and his representation in the …
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The Lancashire Gentry in the Early Fourteenth Century, c. 1300 – 1360
Abstract The Lancashire Gentry in the Early Fourteenth Century, c. 1300 – 1360 The topic of this dissertation is the gentry of Lancashire in the years from 1298 to 1361. It is a prosopographical study involving a limited number of prominent families, selected on the basis of status, tenure and …
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Memoria, meditatio, and the margins : marginalia as loci of ethical cultivation in the Macclesfield Psalter
In this paper, I argue that the marginal hybrids in the Macclesfield Psalter functioned as loci of ethical cultivation. The marginal hybrids, I contend, functioned on three levels. On the practical level, they served as aides-mémoire, playing a critical role in the overall visual system of the …
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Richard Rolle, Emendatio vitae: Amendinge of Lyf, a Middle English translation, edited from Dublin, Trinity College, MS 432
… widely copied of all Richard Rolle’s writings in fourteenth and fifteenth-century England, and yet in modern scholarship this important work and its early audience have received comparatively little scholarly attention. My aim has been to address this lacuna by producing an edition of one of the …